Dyson’s Purifier Hot+Cool is three machines in one tall loop: a HEPA air purifier you run all year, a fan for summer and a space heater for winter. The HP1 is the current version, launched in 2025 at $659.99 and now selling for $499.99 at Dyson and on Amazon. That is still several times the price of a good space heater plus a good purifier...
Once the heating comes on, indoor air dries out fast, and the bedroom is where you feel it most: a scratchy throat in the morning, dry skin, static shocks and a stuffy nose that keeps you awake. A humidifier fixes that, but the bedroom is also where its flaws matter most. It has to be quiet, it should not light up the room, and it needs to hold...
A heated blanket is one of the cheapest ways to stay warm in winter. Instead of heating the whole house, you heat yourself: a typical heated throw draws around 100 watts, so a four-hour evening on the couch costs a few cents of electricity at the current US average price of about 18 cents per kilowatt-hour. Modern models are far safer and softer...
A space heater lets you heat the room you are actually in instead of the whole house, which is why so many people turn to one when the weather turns cold. Almost every plug-in model tops out at 1,500 watts, so the differences between them are not about raw power. They are about how evenly and quietly the heat is delivered, how well the thermostat...
The worst part of a backyard fire has always been the smoke. It follows you around the circle, gets into your clothes and hair, and sends the neighbors inside to close their windows. Smokeless fire pits fix most of that with a simple idea: a double wall that draws in air at the bottom, heats it as it rises, and releases it through holes near the...
A pellet grill is the closest thing barbecue has to an autopilot. You fill a hopper with hardwood pellets, set a temperature, and a controller feeds pellets into a firepot at whatever rate holds that number — for an hour of chicken thighs or 14 hours of brisket. The best models now report the temperature, the meat probe and the pellet level...
The case against electric snow blowers used to be simple: they were toys. A corded unit dragged an extension lead across the driveway, the early battery models ran out halfway down it, and anything heavier than a light dusting of powder stopped them dead. That has changed more quickly than most people realize. The best cordless machines now throw...
These two Bluetti solar generators look like the same product at slightly different prices, and they are not. The Apex 300 costs $2,499 and stores 2,764.8 watt-hours. The Elite 400 costs $2,249 — $250 less — and stores 3,840 watt-hours, which is 39% more energy. On that arithmetic alone the choice looks obvious, and it is wrong. The...
Robot lawn mowers spent a decade being a bad idea executed poorly. You buried a boundary wire around your garden, the mower bumped into things until it found its way home, and it cost as much as a used car. In 2026 that description is obsolete. The current generation navigates with spinning laser scanners and stereo cameras, needs no wire at all...
